The hobby brewer from Kremsmünster won his eleventh national championship title at the 18th national brewing championships, the “Austrian Beer Challenge” of breweries and hobby brewers in Vienna.
Meidinger, whose home brewery “Kremstal-Bräu” is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, won this time in the “wheat beers, rye beers and wheat beers” category. With 25 submissions, this was the third best of the 17 beer style categories. In total, more than 600 beers were at the start at these state championships.
The hobby brewer from the Kremstal, who owes his sixth championship title to his wheat beer creations, even managed the Grand Slam again after 2019 with places one to three. An international jury chose Meidinger’s “Stoneman-Weisse” as the winning beer. The “Kremstal-Weisse” and the “Kloster-Weisse” from Kremsmünster follow in second and third place. The beers from the amateur mycologist were praised by the jury because of their high “drinkability” which characterizes them, loosely translated as the temptation to continue drinking. The reason for the low drinking resistance of his beer creations is easy to explain, says the two-time home brewer of the year and reveals the recipe for his brewing success: “The decisive ingredient in brewing wheat beer is highly active, unicellular sugar fungi. This pure cultured yeast turbo in connection with an unorthodox fermentation process creates a very special aroma profile.”
Every non-hobby brewer may now come up with his own explanation for this recipe.
- All results of the national beer championships are available online at www.bierig.org.
Source: Nachrichten
